842 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
University of Texas. — Dr. K. M. Wiegand, instructor in botany in 
Cornell University. — D. L. Wilder, of Des Moines, Iowa, assistant 
on the Iowa Geological Survey. — Dr. Gregg Wilson, lecturer on 
biology in the Royal Veterinary College at Edinburgh, and lecturer 
on zoology at the Heriot-Watt College. 
Deaths: Professor Balbiani, the well-known embryologist of the 
Collége de France, aged 75.— Dr. Ernst Beinling, assistant in the 
Botanical Experiment Station in Karlsruhe, in May. — Professor 
H. R. Geiger, sometime assistant on the United States Geological 
Survey, at Springfield, Ohio, July 18.— Mr. N. R. Harrington, 
instructor in zoology in Western Reserve University, in Atabara, 
Egypt, of typhoid fever, July 27. — Stefan Ph. Jakshich, professor 
of botany in the University of Belgrade, May 15.— The French 
geologist, Adolphe Legeal, has been murdered in the Sudan. — 
Christian Lippert, cryptogamic botanist, in Vienna, May 21. — 
Alphonse de Marbaix, professor of zodlogy in the Agricultural 
Institute at Louvain.— Dr. Joseph Mies, anatomist and anthropol- 
ogist, in Cologne, June 9, aged 39. - W. W. Norman, professor of 
biology in the University of Texas, in Boston, about the first of July. 
— Dr. Gustaf Pernhoffer, botanist, in Vienna, May 17.— Wilhelm 
Rudel, student of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, in Breslau, April 30, 
aged 81.— Rev. Jonathan Short, of Hoghton, England, a geologist 
and antiquarian, May 17, aged 73.— Henry Thomas Soppitt, mycol- 
ogist, in Halifax, April 1, aged 40. — John Whitehead, collector and 
explorer, in the island of Hainan, aged 43. 
